I'm looking at getting either a 1070 or a 1080 and will be watercooling it. Is the benefit's over the founders edition just better cooling to start with so they can achieve better stock results? If I am getting one to watercool, will there be much difference between the cheapest and the most expensive card? Or the cheapest founders edition and the cheapest none founders edition?
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Benefit of getting better than founders edition card?
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EVGA card for warranty that allows cooler removal.
Your better off getting the cheapest reference EVGA 1070 if you plan on water cooling. Reference board overclock just as well as AIB cards. Reference water blocks/backplates are also cheaper than custom AIB ones.
EVGA FE or SC, whichever is cheapest.
Your better off getting the cheapest reference EVGA 1070 if you plan on water cooling. Reference board overclock just as well as AIB cards. Reference water blocks/backplates are also cheaper than custom AIB ones.
EVGA FE or SC, whichever is cheapest.
some of the non reference boards will have better power delivery/control, with more phases.
Might come in to play if you start pushing things.
Not every non reference board has an available custom water block though.
Water cooling is going to help and may level out performance issues, but there's more to a board than just a cooler.
Might come in to play if you start pushing things.
Not every non reference board has an available custom water block though.
Water cooling is going to help and may level out performance issues, but there's more to a board than just a cooler.
A simple 8 pin power supply will provide massively more power than the 1080 needs. The 2 x 8 pin models are purely for asthetics(!)
Not the same thing. Its not the supply to the board, but regulation on the board.
The most basic VRM designs (4 or 5 phase on founders I believe) with one 8pin are capable of the same boost clocks as the most expensive 8/12 whatever phase cards.
Plenty of people put founders cards on water and have amazing results.
Zotac do not have warranty stickers on the screws even though their policy forbids it if you put it back together they wont know
i wouldnt trust MSI or any manufacturer that has warranty stickers on the screws as there is conflicting reports as to if they will honor the warranty
EVGA are the only ones to come out and confirm you can do it officially
Gigabyte do not have stickers either and they have UK RMA and are pretty good
Oh yeah I forgot about that. lol
If you are after a silent system then yes. Customer watercooling loop, big radiator with a good pump on minimum RPM will be practically silent.
Ignore those putting CPU AIO's on their GPU's - those pumps are very noisy plus they still require a fan on the GPU to cool the VRM's/VRAM, so pretty pointless and fail IMO.
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Got to be something to it, as the FuryXs were water cooled, and they didn't overclock for toffee
Mine sit all day long under water at 2101mhz. One of mine underwater will run 2169mhz without any issue.
Just keeps them cool. Rarely see them over 40c. And stable. On air they will drop over time. Like me in SLI, 1-200mhz due to temps if not more. Under water they sit rock solid at 2.1ghz.
All while keeping my pumps at 20% and fans at 6-700rpm max. I honestly can't hear my system, even at full tilt
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